We found a baby fox

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Wednesday night when I was giving the baby a bath the outside dogs (my husbands hunting beagles) started barking. It carried on for about a half hour. I finally went in and asked if he can hear them and he said no. I told them they had been freaking out for a long time and he needed to go check in case one got out of its kennel. He came back in a bit later with a baby fox in a bucket. First we thought it was a coyote but in the light we could see better that it had black tips on its ears and a white tip on its tail. Oh my gosh was it cute and it made the funniest bark. I called a rehabilitation place which was a two hour drive. The woman was willing to drive up where to get it since it was dark and he didn’t want me on the roads that late with the baby to meet her halfway. One volunteer drove an hour to come pick it up and arrived at midnight. She then drove it 45 minutes from here to give it to a woman who would take care of it over night and take it to the rehabilitation place in the morning. My husband wasn’t happy with me. He found the set of mom and dads prints going to our pigeon coop. He thinks the baby climbed out of its den and followed their trail and wound up in the empty spot in the beagles kennel where he found it. My husband has wanted to put it back outside for the parents to come for but it was cold and snowy and who knows how long it had already been out there in those elements. It was small maybe 6 weeks old. I didn’t want a coyote or something to kill it or it freeze to death out there. The fox was here for 4 hours and the parents never came looking for it nor did they overnight so I made the right decision getting ahold of the rehabilitation people. Photo is of the baby fox.